tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91034704364921352952016-12-05T05:37:00.829-06:00Don Colacho’s AphorismsEnglish translations of the aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez DávilaStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.comBlogger3030125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-38197157711130219592012-06-13T22:30:00.001-05:002012-06-13T22:30:07.329-05:00Don Colacho Now on TwitterAnyone interested in re-reading <i>Don Colacho's Aphorisms</i>&nbsp;from the beginning can now do so by following Don Colacho on Twitter at @<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/DColacho/">DColacho</a>.<br /><br />I do not manage the account myself, but&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/matthewschmitz">Matthew Schmitz</a>&nbsp;has been kind enough to volunteer to re-publish the aphorisms via Twitter.&nbsp;Many thanks to him!Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-86712239717897018812011-03-24T21:39:00.006-05:002011-03-24T23:10:25.382-05:00Welcome to Don Colacho’s Aphorisms!Welcome to <span style="font-style: italic;">Don Colacho’s Aphorisms</span>!<br /><br />Although this blog no longer publishes new material, you are still invited to take a look around.<br /><br />For information about the aim of this blog as well as about how to navigate it, start <a href="http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/01/about.html">here</a>.Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-19336741913262335592011-03-20T20:00:00.004-05:002011-03-20T20:00:00.649-05:00#2,988Writing is the only way to distance oneself from the century in which it was one’s lot to be born.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 477</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-20123194356414026612011-03-20T16:00:00.003-05:002011-03-20T16:00:02.436-05:00#2,987Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts about the divinity of Christ and the existence of God.<br />Charity can be the most subtle form of apostasy.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 477</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-40038399670835600122011-03-20T12:00:00.003-05:002011-03-20T12:00:03.980-05:00#2,986The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 477</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-42076482680455672582011-03-20T08:00:00.002-05:002011-03-20T08:00:01.581-05:00#2,985Envy tends to be the true force behind moral indignation.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 477</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-5897293279361453642011-03-20T04:00:00.001-05:002011-03-20T04:00:02.086-05:00#2,984What is important is not that man believe in the existence of God; what is important is that God exist.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 477</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-74649414380088761092011-03-20T00:00:00.002-05:002011-03-20T18:13:42.327-05:00#2,983The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 477</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-6395537685786876702011-03-19T20:00:00.006-05:002011-03-19T20:00:02.912-05:00#2,982In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect.<br />The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing.<br />The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin.<br />From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 476</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-43281749045726191012011-03-19T16:00:00.001-05:002011-03-19T16:00:00.282-05:00#2,981The voter does not even vote for what he wants; he only votes for what he thinks he wants.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 476</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-32808257239158268242011-03-19T12:00:00.003-05:002011-03-19T12:09:23.559-05:00#2,980It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 476</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-83758063737337660952011-03-19T08:00:00.004-05:002011-03-19T08:00:07.013-05:00#2,979As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law.<br />The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another’s duty.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 476</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-47116141708978515082011-03-19T04:00:00.001-05:002011-03-19T04:00:03.192-05:00#2,978Nobody in politics can foresee the consequences either of what he destroys, or of what he constructs.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 475</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-81685484065643747682011-03-19T00:00:00.001-05:002011-03-19T00:00:01.412-05:00#2,977The contemporary Church prefers to practice an electoral Catholicism.<br />It prefers the enthusiasm of great crowds to individual conversions.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 475</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-80223266690809291722011-03-18T20:00:00.006-05:002011-03-18T20:00:01.283-05:00#2,976Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 475</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-77169436496503765742011-03-18T16:00:00.002-05:002011-03-18T16:00:02.267-05:00#2,975The modern metropolis is not a city; it is a disease.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 475</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-27631834670706257902011-03-18T12:00:00.004-05:002011-03-19T13:33:11.426-05:00#2,974Society until yesterday had notables; today it only has celebrities.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 475</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-17020396442194871082011-03-18T08:00:00.001-05:002011-03-18T08:00:05.808-05:00#2,973In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 475</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-60156432271655928782011-03-18T04:00:00.001-05:002011-03-18T04:00:06.409-05:00#2,972Fashion, even more than technology, is the cause of the modern world’s uniformity.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 475</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-73336801814132094002011-03-18T00:00:00.002-05:002011-03-18T00:00:08.587-05:00#2,971The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of socialist programs.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 474</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-68219407136431923012011-03-17T20:00:00.005-05:002011-03-18T16:13:09.354-05:00#2,970History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence “Freedom,” but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 474</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-18110373744620649472011-03-17T16:00:00.002-05:002011-03-17T16:00:01.509-05:00#2,969Ever since Wundt, one of the classic places of “disguised unemployment” is the experimental psychology laboratory.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 474</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-35933602630106132122011-03-17T12:00:00.003-05:002011-03-17T12:00:00.097-05:00#2,968The so highly acclaimed “dominion of man over nature” turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 474</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-61909458933803942212011-03-17T08:00:00.002-05:002011-03-17T08:00:03.039-05:00#2,967No one is more insufferable than a man who does not suspect, once in a while, that he might not be right.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 474</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103470436492135295.post-60978047520303779782011-03-17T04:00:00.002-05:002011-03-17T04:00:00.079-05:00#2,966Superficial, like the sociological explanation of any behavior.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, p. 474</span>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com1